Fried Egg Golf Games: Golf Template Holes Word Search, 12/6/24

The grandfather of American golf, C.B. Macdonald became the country’s first golf course architect (and also coined the term) when he designed the historic Chicago Golf Club.

The Chicago native picked up golf while he attended St. Andrews University. During his studies of courses in Scotland, Macdonald identified 21 different hole designs or “templates” that would test a great player’s game while allowing mediocre and poor players angles and options to score well.

These “template holes” are typically easy to identify after a little schooling, and we’ve got an entire page of stories dedicated to them. Can you identify them below? Have a little fun and share your scores with us on Twitter/X, Bluesky or Instagram.

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